Andersonville National Historic Site in Georgia memorializing those Union prisoners who died at the Andersonville Confederate Prison, as well as all other American prisoners of war. The Tennessee Union Soldiers' Monument, dedicated to those lost in...

Brothers Cpl. Jesse Mercer Pirkle (l), and 1st Sgt. Elijah Jefferson Pirkle (r), both of Co. Georgia, 3rd Tenn. Cav., USA. Elijah Pirkle initially joined as a private in Co. B, 36th Inf., CSA. He deserted and later joined the U.S. army with his...

Charles T. Swindler was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and taken to Andersonville Prison. He enlisted on September 18, 1861, and mustered out February 21, 1865. He was a member of the 7th Indiana Infantry and fought at Gettysburg.

December 28, 1864 issue of Horace Greeley's New York Tribune newspaper relating the aftermath of the Confederate retreat across the Tennessee River and his pursuit by Union forces. Also, a notice on the poor treatment of Federal prisoners who yet...

Discharge certificate for James C. Mates, Private, Company A, 101st Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, USA. Mates enlisted on August 25, 1862 for a period of three years. He was captured and survived Andersonville prison. James C. Mates'...

Drawing of life inside Andersonville Prisoner of War Camp. Large central image depicts events in the camp and are numbered with a legend beneath describing each. Images of specific events surround the central image.

Framed tintype of Robert Milton Byrn, who was a school teacher near McEwen, Humphreys County. Mistaking Byrn for a spy or scout, Federal soldiers captured him at Cuba Landing and detained him on an ironclad gunboat. He was sent to the Union prison...

Imprisoned with Shadrick Lee at the Confederate prison camp at Andersonville, Ga., H. H. Redkey corresponded with Lee more than 40 years after the Civil War ended. He mentioned the "starvation, filth, abuse and everything else that could help kill...

In 1897 Charles Dickason, who served as a private in Co. G, 176th N.Y. Inf., USA, wrote to Shadrick Lee, then a private of Co. E, 3rd Tenn. Inf., USA, and a fellow Andersonville prison camp survivor. He described drinking from a greasy creek "made...

In this letter from the Bureau of Pensions, Commissioner Henry Clay Evans rejected an additional pension claim of Shadrick Lee of Oral, Tenn. Lee served as a private, Co. E, 3rd Tenn. Inf., USA, was imprisoned at Andersonville, Ga. and had reported...

John H. Kell's reimbursement claim for $302.90 for stores "destroyed by the Federal Army." Item is in a ledger book and is signed by the Clerk of the County Court. An itemized listing of stores and valuations are listed, incl. 64 bushels corn, 4...

Letter from James Noah Levi to Eunice C. "Nicey" Vandergriff Levi, his wife. James N. Levi was born December 18, 1833, in Falling Water, Hamilton County, Tennessee. He walked for 13 nights from Kentucky to join the Federal Army at Walden's Ridge...

Letter to H.W. Summer of Wartburg, TN from Alexander Eckel, Sec. of the Tennessee Union Soldiers' Andersonville Monument Association acknowledging receipt of a check for $150 from H.W. Summer for a monument at Andersonville, Ga., site of the...

Medallion suspended from gold bar. It commemorates the 21st Annual Session of the Ohio Association of Union Ex-Prisoners of War. The event took place in Marysville, Ohio, June 19-20, 1901. Medallion is decorated with an eagle atop crossed rifles...

Misemer writes that officers are riding around the camp telling soldiers that they will be paroled and of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Richmond. He also says that he has heard that two of his comrades have come from Andersonville and are doing...